Quick Homemade Liqueurs, or Instant Drinks

Before the New Year a couple of days, and everything is homemade and drunk and not prepared? Well, congratulations, you’re in the majority. But it’s too early to despair, because there have always been and will be instant liqueurs that are easy to prepare at home. We offer you several recipes for such drinks. Don’t thank!

Time is short, so I write as quickly as you prepare these goodies. Some of them are very simple, some are not so simple, but when Santa Claus is already poking his staff in the back, you don’t have to choose. I also advise you to look at other recipes for liqueurs on our website (especially in the direction of cream ones), because many of them do not need long cooking and aging. Do not even try to cook tinctures in a quick way, nothing good will come of it. Hurry!

Fast Orange Clove Liqueur

Of course, this liquor needs to insist on resting for at least a couple of days, but when Frost is on the doorstep …

In a small saucepan, combine water, sugar and cloves. Cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Cool the syrup. Plunge oranges in boiling water and rub with a hard towel before use. Remove the zest without white skin from one orange, peel one and chop coarsely, and squeeze juice from the third and first without zest. In a jar of suitable volume, add juice and orange slices, zest, chilled syrup and vodka. Mix the mixture well and leave for a minimum day to infuse. Then strain, squeeze and serve after a few hours. Such liquor is stored in the refrigerator for up to several months.

Instant honey liqueur

This is an old Lithuanian recipe printed in a cookbook by the American Lithuanian Women’s Alliance of Chicago. Good spicy liqueur. With the heating of honey, you can think for yourself.

In a small saucepan, mix honey and water, add vanilla, spices and zest of one lemon. Bring the water to a boil and cook over low heat for 7 minutes, stirring constantly and removing the foam. Remove from heat and immediately add vodka. Wait until the liquor cools down a bit, and then strain and pour into a jar or heat-resistant bottles. After 1-2 hours, instant honey liqueur can be served warm or cold.

This recipe in practice from our friends from Dobrovar:

Falernum by Paul Clarke for a tiki party

During the heyday of tiki culture, falernum, a syrup made from rum brewed with cloves, citrus fruits, and almonds, was added to numerous rum cocktails such as Zombie. The recipe for this liqueur syrup was widely known in bar circles, but Paul Clark, who wrote The Cocktail Chronicles (Navigating the Cocktail Renaissance with Jigger, Shaker & Glass), presented his version, on which he worked for about a year. Here you have the basis for delicious tiki cocktails, and the concept for an awesome party.

Toast the almonds and cloves in a small dry skillet over medium heat until the almonds are golden and the cloves release their amazing aroma. This usually takes 5 minutes. Remove almonds and cloves from heat; cool for 3 minutes. Transfer to a jar of suitable size, add lime zest, ginger root and rum, shake well and leave in a warm place for 24 hours. Mix 340 g of sugar and 180 ml of water, stir until the sugar is completely dissolved (so the syrup will be denser). You should have about 400-410 ml of syrup.

After 24 hours, strain the rum infusion through several layers of dampened gauze or paper towels. Squeeze lightly to extract the maximum amount of valuable liquid. Add to the infusion the previously prepared syrup, lime juice and almond extract, diluted in syrup from 2 tbsp. l. sugar and 1 tbsp. l. water. The resulting liqueur syrup is well shaken and can be used immediately to prepare a variety of tiki cocktails. Falernum can be stored for up to 1 month in the refrigerator.

Quick Spicy Pumpkin Liqueur

If suddenly a delicious pumpkin was lying around in the kitchen. The liquor definitely needs to rest for 1-2 weeks, but after a day or two it can be put on the table without a twinge of conscience. A good tasty rum is important.

Combine water and sugar in a suitable saucepan, bring to a boil, stirring constantly the syrup. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and vanilla, mix well. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring constantly, for about 30 minutes. While the syrup is cooking, prepare a large sieve, cheesecloth and a heatproof bowl. Immediately pour the syrup from the fire into a sieve with laid gauze and let it drain. When only a thick puree remains in the sieve, gently squeeze it out. The result should be about 470 ml of syrup. Add the rum to the warm syrup and let the liqueur cool for an hour. You need to store the drink in the refrigerator, serve it to the table after 1-2 days of rest, but it is better, of course, to let it rest for 2-3 months.

Cream liqueur in a hurry

Suitable for you if you are still not lazy and have prepared at least coffee liqueur according to our recipe. By the way, it can be replaced with almond, mint or orange liqueurs. If you have not read us at all, then buy these liqueurs in the store for a lot of money, because that’s what you need!

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Serve immediately, neat or over ice. Store in a tightly closed container in the refrigerator for up to one month. Shake well before use.

New Year’s Ron Ponche from Panama

Where without New Year’s liqueurs-cocktails that you can drink immediately after preparation. By the way, we already have such on our website, for example, a Christmas eggnog. So, Ron Ponche is a traditional New Year’s drink of Panama. To prepare it, you will have to run around the city in search of sugar-free condensed milk (a very common product in many countries, especially in Latin America). Prepare this exotic for a huge company.

Place the first five ingredients in a large saucepan (preferably in a double boiler), mix thoroughly with a mixer and put on medium heat. The hardest part: cook the mixture over low to medium heat, stirring constantly, for 45-60 minutes. You should get a homogeneous thick mass. This mass must be removed from the fire and water and spiced rum will be added to it, add the latter to taste. Strain the drink through a sieve and pour into beautiful bottles. Can be served at the table. You can drink Ron Ponche like Baileys.

I dare not delay any longer. Have a delicious New Year with a lingering but pleasant aftertaste!